Get with the times and deliver us something that we are WILLING to pay for!

No, that’s bootlegging.

SHARING Stuff does NOT make you a Pirate.

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“Copyright infringement is not *stealing*”

That’s all in the eye of the beholder.
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Drinking a lot of the RIAA cool aid, are you?

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“Yes, we are entitled to it.“

You can tell that to the judge.
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Dont need to, its not a crime to think so, and your buddies have not had success in making it into a crime… yet.

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If you actually do want to dedicate yourself to a life of cat and mouse a step ahead of law enforcement
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There is no cat and mouse…the mouse in a separate house as is the cat, you are the one still hiding behind a nick, while I am pretty open about who i am, what does that say?

As for your fantasies of a closed down internet, while it might be good and give you wet dreams… its never going to happen.
Governments will bend backwards due to corruption.. but they are not going to break their back for you.

And piracy is on the rise, not the decline… and has been for years, your dreams of pirates being an absolute minority are just that… dreams.

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But your VPN’s and your proxies are temporary fixes and I know you realize this, too
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Unlike the content industries we evolve immediately, *IF* one day VPNs are no longer the safest place to voice your opinion against oppression,corruption and injustice, it will be replaced by something else…which will be as good or better than how VPN is today, you do realize that dont you?

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Once you are in perpetual hiding
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Again you talk about hiding, and again i ask you…. who is really hiding, you or me?

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you’ll live your life on that proxy+VPN hoping no one has cracked it yet while rubbing elbows with every common VPN-using pedophile
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HEHE, first people like tried to associate p2p with organized crime and terrorism (loved that video by the way) now its VPNs with pedos?
good luck with that.
I’ll be sure to tell all the businesses and govt agencies using VPNs who they are “rubbing elbows with” :)

As for how hard it is to “hide” behind a VPN, here’s how it works, double click VPN icon, click connect, heck… thats even easier than logging into my email account!

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Yeah, you’ll always be smarter than me.
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If I was not, I would be behind bars (and you would have a big smile on your face)… thats where you want people “like me”, right?

It would have been cool if we had organized and stopped buying long before the internet and effected genuine change to these exploitive industries. Instead, the TF fanbois approach this as a drunken smash-and-grab and then whine when they get precisely what they earn. I still say the jury is very out on whether this approach to business will gather much real traction. In the bigger picture, the industries go on as before with government and law enforcement at their side as always. Given the mindset of piracy, I predict this is going to get WAY MORE adversarial and insanely punitive before any real change occurs. A drunk—- intoxicated on his own self-importance and chestbumping the LEO rarely goes well for the drunk and that’s about where we are at the moment.

Your points are well considered as always but this time short sighted, perhaps. Pull back and see a larger, longer picture.

The innovation cycle is 1000 times shorter than it was in the 18th century when the mere thought of radio was absurd. It won’t take long for VPN’s and proxy’s to be the cute tech equivalent of our old 14.4 baud dial-ups. The cat and mouse game never changes. I lol at the pathetic mouse self-image most pirates embody but they have that correct and they will live furtive, anxious online lives if they are dumbass enough to take a criminal path in pride. Serves each one right, in my view. Poor quality thinking leads no where worth going.

The growing misuse of any tech will only lead to the licensing and eventual public loss of that tech. It’s a fact of life that private online illegal activists have the VPN anonymizer in common, Nub, so the associations that I mentioned already exist. To remind me that “they all wear pants and drink coffee, too” is just sophism. Eventually VPN will be synonymous with criminal intent if this keeps going as it is. There is no “right” to privacy anywhere: the closest some countries founding documents get to that are the “right to the RESPECT” for privacy but not the privacy itself. Why? Because rights are RIGHTS and privacy evaporates in a finger snap when “reasonable suspicion” of wrongdoing does documentable harm to others. The reasonable suspicion doctrine–and the documentable harm— has been on the table in online activity for almost a decade and I think a “right to privacy” is a non-starter in this issue. Personally, I don’t think government needs to know what I do in my cellar, either, but if similar trends around the world set up cellar counterfeiting operations or hashish manufacturing in these kinds of numbers, “Cellar Inspection Initiatives” would be instituted and carried out all over the globe and you know it. History shows this time and again, Nub. Weave on the highway? Take a breath test. Hide your bag from the camera? Get searched on the way out. You might as well argue for your “right” to illegal pharma manufacture or to posses an assault rifle. VPN privacy to demonstrable harm? Never gonna happen.

So the bigger picture is what digital industry really wants but all they are actually entitled to is the same quid pro quo, “one product possession/one purchase”, that any other material industry is entitled to. You can bet governments want their cut in taxes, too. So my feeling is that this is all part of a very long term strategy that pushes to a breaking point of some sort and then governments grant digital creators the levies they need to keep going, imposed on all of us and permanently institutionalizing the entertainment cartels. And what an achievement! No more speculative risk or return on investment, now they just sit back fat and happy and collect their cut while we pay regardless of what they do or not.

And at that point they will have outmaneuvered every mouthbreather on the network, eZee and company included, too excited stealing the latest illegal copies of Wolverine and Demigod to think that far ahead.

London, New York or Taiwan..I have seen big electronic retail giants playing an amazing HD rip of The Bee Movie or Madagascar or Transformers in their Laptops…you can easily makeout..sometimes the file name shows up in the player with extension with the rippers name ..LOL !!!!

Fact is that they have such a huge inventory to display that it will cost a huge extra bucks to display each an every unit of laptops and desktops with HD content…And bear in mind they have LCD,Plasma,Home Theatre, big monitors for display..

This is nothing new…

And about IPod success…even Apple knows the truth !!!! This is just so fucking true…millions of 160 and 200 gigs ipods are sold each year all over the world…most of these countries does not even have itunes or any legal music download service in their region…don’t tell me that the kids are all buying cd’s and then ripping and stacking up their Ipods :)

Would they be leading consumers into believing that its a perfect piece of hardware to use for playing pirated movies? I don’t believe that is their intention but it does smell funky!

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Your always comming out with this pedophile crap, where’s your proof, show up some numbers eh?

I don’t doubt alot of people here make crap arguements for defending piracy, but yours are fairly ill thought out aswell.

In my oppinion your idea of a ‘controlled’ internet is absurd and rather offensive. The internet was designed as a free system for the flowing of information, not a tool just for corperates to pedal their crap.

That’s right the 2nd most effective invention (only after the electronic computer) in the world is of a liberal design. Life changed once we all went online.

I take issue with several of your points though:

1. VPN encryption has not been cracked yet and is highly unlikely to be. The only known way is brute force key finding which is not feasible. Therefore anyone routing traffic through a VPN is safe from any action, legal or otherwise.

2. What that article regarding the FBI “spyware” trojan fails to mention is that whilst it’s been used often enough in the past it requires an attack vector to get it onto the victims computer firstly and if the user is behind a VPN this still wont matter – all internet traffic is routed through the VPN.

3. Fully anonymous and acceptably fast P2P is already here, it just requires a larger bulk of people to move to it for content. One of many solutions is Freenet, which whilst it has drawbacks such as incredibly high latency it does offer very high transfer speeds fopr large files – faster in many cases than crap public trackers.

Sorry bud, the future your predicting will not happen – it’s not even a matter of “if”, the technology is already here now to deal with any escalation of the legal or otherwise actions by anti-p2p.

Oh and BTW, as well as “rubbing shoulders” with pedophiles any VPn user is also accompanied by the largest users of VPN tunnels: government and big business. Nice try at associating the right to privacy with child molestation but no cigar.

“why everybody thinks that all middle easterners are rich?
that only apply on gulf countries not the whole middle east.”

Learn to read. Or if you can read but dont know the words, look them up before you look like a retard.

Shiek: The title is sometimes more informally used to people who have a certain financial or political influence, but especially in relation to royalty and other nobility. In the Persian Gulf States the title is used for men of stature, whether they are managers in high posts, wealthy business owners, or local rulers.

No, MediaMarkt’s main slogan is “Not for idiots”, usually accompanying a video showing some idiots… at least where I live.

Nah, all you got is a big pointed stick. And you use it to frighten the people that feed you (consumers and artists). You’re a moral equivalent of a child-abusing priest.

“Copyright infringement is not *stealing*”

That’s all in the eye of the beholder. To the governments fighting you on this, the software firms who have lost their goods or the entertainment companies whose inventories have been gutted or the game creators who can’t even get a game well-launched anymore because the piracy is so damaging or the artists who see their income dry up and have asked TPB to take their stuff down but are publicly ridiculed, or the indie producers who have been revenue-starved through piracy of their tracks right out of their businesses…..to anyone who has been on the receiving end of this nightmare, this looks, sounds, feels and affects them just as stealing. For now the legislatures leave it as a civil infraction, true, “infringement.” Perhaps you’d prefer this be changed to criminal charges so “grand larceny” is the proper charge. This will be interesting to watch. You may yet have your wish.

“Yes, we are entitled to it.“

You can tell that to the judge. Maybe Sunde wants to hear it. I thought Tenenbaum’s “Fair Use” defense was pretty damn entertaining, but I’d LOVE to watch a webcast of you in a court case explaining that particular line of reasoning. lol

“You (and your cronies) cant do sh*t,”

You actually know better than that. So does everyone here. We are in a very different place than even just a year ago. This is a long process that will protect freedom as much as pirates will allow, but no government is going to live with this in these kinds of numbers in the long run and you know they won’t. As the criminal charges ratchet higher and higher in the months and years ahead only the most foolish will still be involved with trackers, and you see as easily as I do that hosts and ISP’s will be part of that solution, even if it has to be required by the governments. Go ahead and host a tracker if it’s worth that kind of risk to you, Ezee. The conviction of TPB is not the end, it’s the first light of a new standard for legal online behavior and Sweden will be as much a part of this as anyone else if they want to sell their armaments to the rest of the world. And good luck without your capitalistic arms industry. Weapons have been floating your economic boat since WW2. Sweden will fight piracy because they want the money from selling their bombs.

http://i1.democracynow.org/2008/12/9/sweden_ranks_second_in_the_world

If you actually do want to dedicate yourself to a life of cat and mouse a step ahead of law enforcement with a huge downside if you ever make a mistake, hey, knock yourself out. Seriously. A life like that is ideal for a deep thinker like you. And the cops will always have something new for you, too. Sounds like a great life.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/fbi-spyware-pro.html

The fact is, Ezee, we ALL see now what will happen over time. As online crime of all sorts is taken more and more seriously and high profile convictions become daily occurrences, (and you can bet your life they eventually will), only the most degenerate or stupid will see piracy as a great idea, and online crime will drop precipitously to only the hardcore criminals. Just as IRL, the remaining tiny percentage of digital criminals will reflect the lowest common denominator of society, and the numbers will be a sliver of a percentage compared to what it is today. Just like speeding. Just like shop lifting. Just like tax evasion. Is it worth it to you, Ezee? Great. Take your shot.

But your VPN’s and your proxies are temporary fixes and I know you realize this, too. Like every other criminal who has to live in hiding, you’ll forever need a new place to hide as the cat gets closer. And Ezee, I’d imagine that you will. These are your “principles”, right? So here’s the good news.

Once you are in perpetual hiding a step ahead of Interpol/Scotland Yard/the FBI because you are so eff’d up you cannot fit in with the rest of civilized society anymore, you’ll live your life on that proxy+VPN hoping no one has cracked it yet while rubbing elbows with every common VPN-using pedophile, but you won’t mind at all. You’ll be “home” with your allies of “principle”, right?

Welcome Home, Ezee.

Yeah, you’ll always be smarter than me.